Pharmacist, clinical nutritionist and healthcare founder in Malaysia.
Connecting care. Accelerating healthcare.
Gin Tan has twelve years in healthcare: hospital pharmacist at Hospital Kuala Lumpur, research pharmacist at the Institute for Medical Research, community pharmacist, and founder of a functional health business focused on nutrition and lifestyle as prevention.
She believes doctors, pharmacists and dietitians should work as one team around the patient's journey.
Building a compounding pharmacy that works with doctors and clinics: personalised medicine and supplement formulas for each patient, guided by the doctor's diagnosis and the patient's own blood test results.
State honour conferred by Negeri Melaka.
Built and led a distribution business for functional health products: health consultation and education, market development, building and managing a team.
Counselled patients on medicines, supplements and everyday health at the community pharmacy counter.
Herbal Medicine Research Centre, Ministry of Health. Performed preclinical animal studies testing the safety and toxicity of Malaysian herbal plants at different doses. Studied the health effects of palm oil with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, and helped build the Ministry's Malaysian Herbal Monographs, a public reference on herbal medicines. The foundation of how I judge natural ingredients for compounding today.
Ministry of Health. Rotated through outpatient, inpatient and store pharmacy, medicine by post and drive-through. Joined doctors on ward rounds, answered drug information enquiries from the public, and performed therapeutic drug monitoring such as vancomycin dosing. Prepared chemotherapy and IV nutrition bags in sterile compounding, and supported pharmacist-led clinics (MTAC) for diabetes, warfarin, asthma and methadone patients.
Doctors, pharmacists, dietitians, physiotherapists and chiropractors each work in their own corner, and the patient is left in the middle, hearing a different answer from each one. Real health is one connected journey, with every professional talking to the next.
Nobody starts losing weight without knowing where they began. Yet most people start supplements with no test before and no check after. Measuring first, then reviewing at three and six months, is what turns guessing into progress.
There is no war between medicine and nutrition. Each is a tool. Used together, made for the person and monitored over time, they give the patient a complete answer instead of a partial one.
A compounding pharmacy that works hand in hand with doctors, so every formula is made for one person.
For doctors, clinic owners, healthcare founders and investors who want to move healthcare forward together.
